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ForwardEthical Considerations and Best Practices in Providing Embedded Mental Health for Special Operations Service Members
This training will provide ethical considerations and best practice guidelines to embedded behavioral health providers at the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt AFB in Ft Walton Beach, FL. The providers will be LPC's, LCSW's, and Psychologists aligned to either the Preservation of the Force and Family (POTFF) program or the True North (TN) program. This activity begins by reviewing broad ethical theory and then examining relevant ethical standards from each of the professional ethical codes. Finally, this training requires participants to consider ethical vignettes that have been taken from real-world scenarios. These vignettes are anonymized in order to protect confidentiality of both the patients and providers, but by using real-world examples participants can better understand the complex decision making that was undertaken by the provider in an environment similar to their own and understand the actual outcome, rather than engage in a purely hypothetical discussion of what "may" happen when dealing with similar situations.
Target Audience
This activity provides continuing education for psychologists and social workers. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate the major ethical theories (e.g., consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and discourse ethics) used in behavioral health practice.
- Apply a structured ethical decision-making model to resolve complex behavioral health cases involving competing ethical obligations.
- Contrast the ethical principles and standards across the psychology, social work, and counseling professions, including discipline-specific similarities and differences.
- Identify ethical challenges unique to military and embedded behavioral health practice, including competing obligations to patients, commands, organizations, and mission requirements.
- Examine ethical issues related to confidentiality, informed consent, competence, documentation, and multiple relationships in operational environments.
- Differentiate the major ethical theories (e.g., consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and discourse ethics) used in behavioral health practice.
- Apply a structured ethical decision-making model to resolve complex behavioral health cases involving competing ethical obligations.
- Contrast the ethical principles and standards across the psychology, social work, and counseling professions, including discipline-specific similarities and differences.
- Identify ethical challenges unique to military and embedded behavioral health practice, including competing obligations to patients, commands, organizations, and mission requirements.
- Examine ethical issues related to confidentiality, informed consent, competence, documentation, and multiple relationships in operational environments.
Heather Miller, LCSW. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Art Miller, Psy.D., ABPP. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Portions of this activity were developed with assistance from OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-5.5) on June - July 2026 for editorial support, instructional design refinement, image generation, and development of educational materials. All AI-assisted outputs were reviewed and verified by Heather Miller, LCSW, Behavioral Health Advisor and Art Miller, PsyD, Operational Psychologist for accuracy, balance, and independence prior to release. Prompts and outputs or were not stored outside the organization.
Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose. No commercial support was provided for this activity.
Requirements: CE/CME certificates are awarded to MHS participants who fully complete the activity, successfully submit the evaluation survey, and pass the posttest with a minimum score of 80% unless noted otherwise. The deadline to claim credit is Sep 2, 2026.
Access Code/Accommodations: Some activities require an access code to register or claim CE/CME credit. For inquiries regarding the access code or accommodations, please email Arthur Miller at [email protected].
For technical support, email [email protected].
There is no cost to participate in this activity.